The following are indexing terms related to the description of this collection.

Manchuria (built 1904; passenger vessel)

Pacific Mail Steamship Company

Postcards

Color lithographs

Information for Researchers

Access Information

Access

This collection is open for research.

Access Information

Condition Restrictions
There are no restrictions based on the condition of this material. However, you should be aware that access to collection
material is always at the discretion of NPS curatorial staff if the condition warrants restricting the access and handling
of the collection items at any time.

Conditions of Use

Use

The San Francisco Maritime NHP possesses physical property rights through ownership of the materials. However, copyright may
reside with the individual or corporate body responsible for the creation of the materials, or with their heirs. It is the
user's responsibility to respect the provisions of the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).
Permission to reproduce or publish from this collection must be secured by the user from the copyright holders.

ANCS+ Catalog No. SAFR 20709.
The collection is cataloged in the National Park Service (NPS) Automated National Catalog System (ANCS+). A portion of the
ANCS+ catalog record can be viewed on the NPS
Museum Collections on the Web Catalog by searching on the catalog number 20709 at
http://www.museum.nps.gov/safr/page.htm. Do not include the acronym "SAFR" in the search.

Administrative Information

History

Historical Note
The MANCHURIA was a passenger steamship launched on November 2, 1903 from New York. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy on April
10, 1918, and commissioned as the USS MANCHURIA, a troop carrier. The vessel was decommissioned on September 11, 1919, and
returned to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. She was employed on the New York to Hamburg run from 1919 to 1923, then transferred
to the New York to San Francisco run.

In November 1928, MANCHURIA was sold to Dollar Steamship Line, and renamed PRESIDENT JOHNSON. She was sold to the Maritime
Commission in October 1938, and operated by American President Lines. She was acquired by the U.S. Army in November 1941 again
to be used as a troop transport vessel. PRESIDENT JOHNSON was sold in April 1946 to Tagus Navigational Co., Panama City, Panama,
and renamed SANTA CRUZ in 1948. She finally was scrapped at Savona, Italy in January 1962.

Custodial History

The items were donated to the San Francisco Maritime Museum by Norman Reed on March 19, 1962. The materials were accessioned
into the National Park Service when the museum was made a unit of Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GOGA-735) and then
were transferred to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park after the establishment of the new park in 1989 (SAFR-1).